JAMES: Do you ever play practical jokes on the troupe members?
CATHY: Absolutely.  All the time.

JAMES: What sort of things do you get up to?

CATHY: Most of its offstage, because you have to be careful what you do onstage.  We’ve had times where we’ve bought crew members onstage for the last shows and things like that, but you really have to be careful because there’s still a paying audience out there.  But there’s a lot of jokes, but there very subtle and usually offstage. 

JAMES: Do you have a lot of free time before the show? 

CATHY: It depends if you’re travelling in the day to get to the venue - then you don’t have a lot of time.  We travel most of the day, and then we have an hour or two at the hotel before coming to the venue.  Most of the time is spent going out and doing the laundry and buying necessitates if you have time, because otherwise we sleep.  We try to sleep as much as we can because we’re fairly nocturnal people.  During the day... we try to do as much as we can.

JAMES: Do you try to keep to any kind of special diet?

CATHY: No, not really!  I don’t!  Maybe some of the others do but it just depends if you’re happy with yourself.  There’s no weight restriction here. 

JAMES: What sort of food do you have to eat before the show?

CATHY: A lot of fruit, a lot of carbohydrates.  Pasta is really good, and bananas... and sugar.  And loads and loads of water before the show!